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Anti-gay Tanzanian leader barred from the United States amid reports of country’s obstruction of LGBT Access to Healthcare

A powerful Tanzanian government official responsible for sweeping anti-gay crackdowns, surveillance squads and arrests of homosexuals has been banned from the United States. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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Tanzania Loses Over $300 Million After Anti-Gay Arrests And Human Rights Abuses

One of Tanzania’s largest donors of foreign aid is revoking nearly $10 million in funding over fears of an anti-LGBTQ crackdown. On Wednesday, Denmark Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tornaes

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Tanzania’s Government encourages the mass arrests of LGBTQ People

Life just got a lot harder for LGBTQ people in Tanzania’s largest city. Paul Makonda (pictured above), the governor of Dar es Salaam, announced on Monday that police would begin